This class project just popped up in my area, as usual there are tons of observations flooding in, about half of which should be captive/cultivated but are unmarked as such. I’ve been marking them for the past few days but more just keep popping up. Anyone else want to help?: https://www.inaturalis…

Direct link to the identify page: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=85108

I feel this, because I’m also furiously marking observations as cultivated. I was even a participant in one of these class projects. Many of my classmates did not listen. I even clarified what a cultivated plant was more than once with no results. It’s sad to me as a person that is observant of pla…

[image] jasonhernandez74: Only 90%? other 10% is split between everyone observing the exact same individual, and selfies

In fact it is a good topic regarding class activities, Inlurked through observations of one of Hong Kong class “party”, children focused solely on planted trees and bushes, the main wild thing were Tree Sparrows, so they made distant pics of planted stuff while there definitely were a lot of much mo…

I almost never mark other people observations as cultivated. I think we need a new feature to detect these observations (or most of them) and to automatically notify the observer.

iNat actually does have a system for automatically marking some observations as captive/cultivated right away, but it’s a highly flawed system. If the smallest standard place an observation is in has at least 10 observations of a genus or species marked as captive/cultivated and over 90% of the obse…

maybe a low estimate :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah, my feeling was that they are restricting their find to within their school premises, so unless you have a keen eye and is interested in that stuff the majority one will find would just be cultivated plants. Also if the teachers are not engaged they cannot feed the encouragement to the students…

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